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Interactive touch-screen dating tool to be deployed in 10,000 social venues to help singles find their perfect match on Skout's mobile dating service. First-of-its-kind product bridges singles from the virtual world to the physical one.
Palm Desert, CA (PRNewswire) March 2, 2009 -- Skout, the mobile, real-time, location-based dating company, today launched Skout OUT at DEMO 09, an interactive new dating tool that helps singles find, flirt and connect with other singles in their immediate vicinity.
Leveraging location-based services and 42" touch-screen plasma displays stationed in bars and clubs across the US, single men and women looking for love need only let "their fingers do the walking" to flirt, send virtual gifts, or dedicate a passionate song to someone that inspires their senses. Skout OUT currently interacts with hundreds of thousands of Skout users using their iPhones, cell phones and laptops to find love on Skout's mobile dating service.
"Skout OUT is an innovative product that shows tight integration with mobile dating and the real world," said Chris Shipley, executive producer for DEMO. "I've been following Skout's progress for some time, and they have impressed me with their disruptive approach to the dating industry with a unique blend of vision and technology."
To purchase virtual gifts or music (from a library of over 350,000 songs) to someone enticing, bar patrons only need to swipe their credit card or insert cash into the built-in payment system and choose the item they want to send.
"Skout OUT solves the age-old problem of finding and approaching singles," said Skout's CEO and founder Christian Wiklund. "As an industry first, we are connecting the virtual online dating world with the real world. Skout OUT enables singles at clubs to 'see' not only available singles at their location, but also singles in other nearby venues as well as Skout mobile phone users. Skout OUT is an important new tool in our company's mission to make finding love easier."
Skout OUT will be available in bars and clubs across the United States beginning in Q2 of 2009.
For more information about Skout, please contact Christian Wiklund, cwiklund (at) skout (dot) com, +1 (415) 992-79213
Have Love, Will Travel: Skout Introduces Skout OUT - Real Time Online Dating in Bars and Clubs Across America
Interactive touch-screen dating tool to be deployed in 10,000 social venues to help singles find their perfect match on Skout's mobile dating service. First-of-its-kind product bridges singles from the virtual world to the physical one.
Palm Desert, CA (PRNewswire) March 2, 2009 -- Skout, the mobile, real-time, location-based dating company, today launched Skout OUT at DEMO 09, an interactive new dating tool that helps singles find, flirt and connect with other singles in their immediate vicinity.
Leveraging location-based services and 42" touch-screen plasma displays stationed in bars and clubs across the US, single men and women looking for love need only let "their fingers do the walking" to flirt, send virtual gifts, or dedicate a passionate song to someone that inspires their senses. Skout OUT currently interacts with hundreds of thousands of Skout users using their iPhones, cell phones and laptops to find love on Skout's mobile dating service.
"Skout OUT is an innovative product that shows tight integration with mobile dating and the real world," said Chris Shipley, executive producer for DEMO. "I've been following Skout's progress for some time, and they have impressed me with their disruptive approach to the dating industry with a unique blend of vision and technology."
To purchase virtual gifts or music (from a library of over 350,000 songs) to someone enticing, bar patrons only need to swipe their credit card or insert cash into the built-in payment system and choose the item they want to send.
"Skout OUT solves the age-old problem of finding and approaching singles," said Skout's CEO and founder Christian Wiklund. "As an industry first, we are connecting the virtual online dating world with the real world. Skout OUT enables singles at clubs to 'see' not only available singles at their location, but also singles in other nearby venues as well as Skout mobile phone users. Skout OUT is an important new tool in our company's mission to make finding love easier."
Skout OUT will be available in bars and clubs across the United States beginning in Q2 of 2009.
ABOUT SKOUT
Skout is the innovative mobile, real-time, location-based dating platform that helps people meet singles in their vicinity by chatting and sharing photos and other user-generated content. Skout's dating service is available on thousands of mobile devices, as an iPhone application, and on any Internet-connected laptop or desktop computer. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit http://www.skout.com/.
ABOUT DEMO
Produced by Network World Events and Executive Forums, the semi-annual DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are hand-selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, helping them to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately 70 new companies, products and technologies. For more information, visit http://www.demo.com.
For more information about Skout, please contact Christian Wiklund, cwiklund (at) skout (dot) com, +1 (415) 992-79213
